Eye-Tracking of Men's Preferences for Waist-to-Hip Ratio and Breast Size of Women
Eye-Tracking of Men's Preferences for Waist-to-Hip Ratio and Breast Size of Women
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DOI：
10.1007/s10508-009-9523-5
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发表时间：
2011-02-01
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3.8
通讯作者：
Dixson, Alan F.
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Dixson, Barnaby J.;Grimshaw, Gina M.;Dixson, Alan F.
关于人类身体特征和择偶偏好的研究通常采用问卷调查的方式，要求参与者对图片的吸引力进行打分。女性的腰臀比（WHR）、乳房大小和面部外观都与男性对女性吸引力的评估有关。然而，人们对男性如何对这些图像进行细致的视觉评估知之甚少。我们使用眼球追踪技术来测量男性观看同一位女性的正面照片时的注视次数、停留时间和初始注视次数，这些照片经过电脑处理后，在WHR（0.7或0.9）和乳房尺寸（小、中、大）上有所不同。男性也会对这些照片的吸引力进行打分。结果表明，最初的视觉注视（发生在每次5秒测试开始后200毫秒内）涉及乳房或腰部。这两个身体部位比脸部或下半身（阴部和腿部）得到更多的首次注视。不管照片的宽比如何，男性看乳房的次数和时间都更长。然而，无论胸部大小如何，男性都认为沙漏形身材和细腰（0.7 WHR）的照片最具吸引力。这些结果提供了男性在判断女性图像吸引力时眼球运动的定量数据，并表明对女性沙漏型身材的评估可能发生得非常快。
Studies of human physical traits and mate preferences often use questionnaires asking participants to rate the attractiveness of images. Female waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), breast size, and facial appearance have all been implicated in assessments by men of female attractiveness. However, very little is known about how men make fine-grained visual assessments of such images. We used eye-tracking techniques to measure the numbers of visual fixations, dwell times, and initial fixations made by men who viewed front-posed photographs of the same woman, computer-morphed so as to differ in her WHR (0.7 or 0.9) and breast size (small, medium, or large). Men also rated these images for attractiveness. Results showed that the initial visual fixation (occurring within 200 ms from the start of each 5 s test) involved either the breasts or the waist. Both these body areas received more first fixations than the face or the lower body (pubic area and legs). Men looked more often and for longer at the breasts, irrespective of the WHR of the images. However, men rated images with an hourglass shape and a slim waist (0.7 WHR) as most attractive, irrespective of breast size. These results provide quantitative data on eye movements that occur during male judgments of the attractiveness of female images, and indicate that assessments of the female hourglass figure probably occur very rapidly.